Interead, a British company has made the Cool-er, a gadget that could change our reading habits for ever. Until relatively recently, buying music meant going in to a shop and picking up a CD. Now, all you need is a computer, an internet connection and an MP3 player to instantly download any song you like.
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Amazon Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device
Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform for reading electronic books (e-books), developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126, first launched in the United States November 19, 2007. Two hardware devices, known as “Kindle” and “Kindle 2,” support this platform, as does an iPhone App called “Kindle for iPhone.” The Kindle hardware devices use an electronic [...]
Amazon misread book sector on speech feature
Amazon chose to keep secret from much of the publishing sector the text-to-speech feature built into the Kindle 2. Instead, Amazon sprung the feature on publishers and the retailer is now taking public-relations hits that it might have avoided if it hadn’t been so tight lipped. Following the debut of the Kindle 2, the 9,000-member [...]
Read-aloud feature on Kindle has people talking
The Kindle 2 electronic reader that Amazon is now shipping has a new read-aloud feature. And for authors and publishers, that’s a potentially troublesome development. “It’s a contractual minefield,” says Paul Aiken, executive director of The Authors Guild. “Authors often give audio rights to one entity and e-books rights to another.” But Amazon insists there [...]